''Cunomyia'' is a genus of

flies Flies are insects of the Order (biology), order Diptera, the name being derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwin ...

in the family

Empididae __NOTOC__ Empididae is a family of flies with over 3,000 described species occurring worldwide in all the biogeographic realms but the majority are found in the Holarctic. They are mainly predatory flies like most of their relatives in the Empid ...

from montane sites in western

Tasmania Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...

, of which almost all of them are in the Tasmanian World Heritage Area. First described in 1998 by Daniel Bickel in his paper, "Cunomyia, a distinctive new hilarine fly genus from the Tasmanian World Heritage Area", as being a monotypic genus only from Tasmania.

Etymology

''Cunomyia'' is a combination of the Latin "cuua", meaning cradle, and "myia", a Greek word meaning fly, referring to the type locality in Cradle Valley, Tasmania.

Species

*'' C. unica'' Bickel, 1998

References

Empidoidea genera Empididae {{Empididae-stub